Publications of the Chair

Energy Poverty has a justice dimension: comparing Bolivia, Côte d’Ivoire, and France

2024
Authors :
Anna Creti, Alpha Ly et Maria-Eugenia Sanin.

Energy poverty is a multidimensional issue, as demonstrated by a comparison between two low-income countries, Bolivia (BOL) and Côte d’Ivoire (CIV), and a high-income European country, France (FRA). These three countries represent different stages of access and energy poverty. The findings highlight the importance of considering affordability in efforts to ensure universal energy access, to...

Ecological policy mix: the SDSN France report

2025
Authors :
Aubert, N., Couppey-Soubeyran, J., Didier, R., Dufrêne, N., Hollandts, X., Lagoarde-Ségot, 1 T., Le Quang, G., Le Poder, L., Massa, I., Mathieu, A., Peters, A., Ponsot, J.F., Revelli, C., Scialom, L., Sersiron, A., Toure, S., Van Weeren, M.

The report attempts to respond to the UN Secretary-General's recent call for "innovative approaches and bold policy decisions" to tackle the SDGs (UN, 2023). It attributes the existing finance gap to the unrealistic assumptions of the dominant macroeconomic paradigm, which it proposes to replace with new assumptions that are better able to address the...

Un policy-mix vert pour l’Europe

2024
Authors :
Jézabel Couppey-Soubeyran, Wojtek Kalinowski, Dominique Plihon

Si elle ne veut pas se désintégrer sous la pression de multiples crises internes et externes, l’Europe politique doit adapter sa gouvernance économique aux défis qui l’attendent. Certaines formes de coordination économique peuvent émerger dans le cadre juridique actuel, d’autres exigeraient une réforme des traités européens.

 

Assessing the Impact of Climate Extreme Events and Conflicts on Internal Displacement in Burkina Faso

2025
Authors :
Koffi Adzavon, Safiétou Sanfo, Ossadzifo Wonyra, Christine Furst

This study investigates the dynamic relationship between climate extreme events, conflicts, and internal displacement in Burkina Faso. Using monthly data on floods, storms, violent and non-violent conflicts, and demonstrations from 2018 to 2022, the analysis shows that, unlike storms, floods have affected all regions of the country. This study highlights the need for effective conflict management...

What policy mix for the ecological transition?

2024
Authors :
Esther Jeffers, Dominique Plihon

This article looks at how to make fiscal, monetary and prudential policies greener in order to address the massive financing needs and major risks associated with climate change.

Starting with the observation, based on the recent experience of the financial and health crises, that the separate and independent implementation of monetary and fiscal policies undermines...

Individual versus group-level agglomeration bonuses to conserve biodiversity

2024
Authors :
François Bareille, Raphaël Soubeyran

Agglomeration bonuses (ABs) are payments conditional on the contiguity of landowners’ conservation areas. It is widely accepted that, by encouraging landowners to cooperate, ABs promote more cost-effective biodiversity conservation than instruments targeting landowners individually. This article challenges this conclusion by studying the impacts of different AB designs, some of which explicitly aim to enhance...

Subsidies and rebound effect with incomplete carbon pricing: an application to biogas

2024
Authors :
Victor Besnier, Guy Meunier

Bioenergies from dedicated crops or wood have faced substantial criticisms due to their significant land requirements. Certain bioenergy pathways, such as biogas generated from crop residues, manure, or food waste, appear to be exempt from this criticism. However, these feedstocks are byproducts of agricultural activities that generate emissions not covered by current climate policies in...

Pour un futur mutuel – Face aux nouvelles fractures, (ré)inventer les mutualisations

2025
Authors :
Collectif : Thierry Germain, Timothée Duverger, Jézabel Couppey-Soubeyran

Dans tous les domaines de nos vies et face aux nouvelles fractures (climatiques et écologiques, du travail ou de santé, numériques ?) mais aussi de façon plus philosophique voire politique, et en la reliant à quelques-unes des grandes notions de notre époque, cet ouvrage explore les potentiels et la modernité d’une idée dans toute...

Long-term sustainability of zero-growth capitalism: activity, employment and unemployment according to different modes of income distribution

2024
Authors :
Laurent Cordonnier, Jacques Mazier

This paper studies the long-term consequences of a zero-growth regime on the evolution of employment and unemployment, depending on the assumptions we can make concerning the evolution of the working population, labor productivity and working hours. These consequences are examined through three scenarios. This leads us to conclude that the goal...

Les pratiques de mobilite des Francais

2024
Authors :
Aurélien Bigo

Les pratiques de mobilité des Français. Graphiques de novembre 2024 issus d’une analyse avec Fabien Perez (SDES) à partir des données de l’enquête mobilité des personnes (EMP) de 2019.